SquishyMcSquish
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I could counter with the clearly missed penalty at Anfield vs Leicester two weeks back and the perfectly onside disallowed Mane goal at the Emirates against Arsenal. That's 4 points right there.
Equally, I could say that until a couple of months ago, we went over a year without receiving a penalty in the league at Anfield.
But I'm long in the tooth enough to know these things happen in football. Swings and roundabouts. Dry your tears mate.
Oh wow you had a couple of decisions go against you this season? How would that change the fact you're the team who overall have benefited most from poor decisions?
Yeah, you went over a year without a penalty, then Klopp had a little moan in the press about it and suddenly went on a spree of soft penalty wins.
'These things happen' is a shit way to excuse terrible officiating. More often than not that terrible officiating has gone your way. You're a Liverpool fan so of course you don't want to accept that, the game vs Arsenal at Anfield was a total fecking disgrace with the amount of decisions going your way. One of the most obvious examples of a referee bowing to the home crowd that I've seen in my time watching football.
It's not 'swings and roundabouts' and it doesn't 'even out over the season', these are bullshit cliches. Quite often one team statistically benefits the most from poor refereeing decisions, hence why we need VAR because the competition should be even. You're that team benefiting thus far. Any remotely tight call is given your way (Mitrovic vs Fulham then Salah goes up and scores), blatant penalty vs Watford, yesterday a tight offside goal? Must be fine, it's Liverpool.
Other managers have spoken about it, Hughton came out after the game vs Brighton and said he thought the referee was very favourable to you, and he was absolutely right.